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6 thoughts on “542 – Catching Up”

  1. Keith

    Some friction, but yeah. IRL, I’d like these two…they should have kids. 😉

    1. Dawn

      I might have to draw out what their kid would look like. First thought is that their kid would look like Ongo Gablogian from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”

    2. Scarsdale

      He’s pushing 60, she’s maybe 30, more likely less. Chuck is most likely shooting blanks, and besides, he’s talking to her like a baby sister than a love interest.

  2. ConcordBob

    It is really hard to have a favorite character, as there are so many good ones. But I think Rosa is my favorite. Chuck is a good accomplice in sneaking work, but not much for romance. Uugh.

  3. Otaku

    I mean, if they don’t have at least an inkling of what’s going down, I’m actually disappointed in Clearstream. If anything, I’m starting to wonder if they caught on and realized “Wait, we can use this.”

    Because of course they can. 😉

  4. Dr. Norman (not a real doctor)

    I’m way ahead of you – I’ve been waiting for you to catch up. From November 2020:
    I would hope for nothing less – her and Chuck have the potential for a great deal of positive mischief.
    Speaking of which, I received the email notifying me that my order for the NSFW “Chuck and Rosa Finally Do It” (age verification required) limited edition hardcover is going to be delayed due to the pandemic. I think it’s really cool that you’ll be adding some additional stretch goal goodies when it ships – thanks for all your story and art.
    As for the inscription, ” We owe it all to you ” will be sufficient.

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542 – Catching Up
Posted on April 9, 2025 by Dawn

X-citing times…

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Clint
If you haven’t noticed, yours truly is a big comic book nerd, and has been for many, many years. Decades, even. In fact, if my occasionally not-so-great memory serves, this traces back to circa 1980 when a very young Clint stumbled across his older sister’s small collection of Uncanny X-Men, a small collection which just happened to cover most of the Dark Phoenix saga. Fast forward to these rather incredible times when comic book stories have hit the mainstream, but that particular saga, still considered one of the best stories ever told in comics, has yet to be successfully translated to the big screen. Oh, I’ve had hopes. Back in the early oughts Dawn and I got extremely excited at the closing moments of X-2 when the Phoenix symbol showed up on the waters of the burst dam where we last saw Jean Grey sacrificing herself so everyone else could get to safety. It wasn’t precisely the tale told in the comics but the main points were there, and third film could start the ball rolling. Well, now of course we know that ball rolled right off the cliff with the utter misfire that was X-Men: Last Stand. Fox really squandered all that potential, to the point where they ditched everything and started over. YMMV on whether the various attempts since then were good, but in the meantime a new production company called Marvel Studios emerged in 2008 and started a relentless march of introducing, developing and merging the stories of various superheroes into an entertainment juggernaut, despite not having the rights to Juggernaut or any other X-Men or X-Men adjacent characters. It’s all a complicated story, but when Marvel Comics fell on hard times in the late 1990s they ended up selling off the movie rights to a lot of their more well-known characters like Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and yes, the X-Men. Marvel Studios had to make do with the leftovers, and despite what some revisionists might claim Iron Man prior to 2008 was no A-lister. Where Sony and Fox seem to stumble about looking for the proper way to showcase their own Marvel characters on the big screen in a consistently well-received manner, Kevin Feige was a steady hand on Marvel Studios’ tiller that led to success after success both with mainstream audiences and nerds such as myself. They just seemed to get what it was about the comics characters that made them last in the first place, and even if some of the details were changed the heart and soul was there. (Source: me legit tearing up during the first Captain America movie the moment I could tell they were getting him right.) Anyhow, why am I blathering on about this? Well, for one thing, Marvel Studios has achieved quite a feat in terms of chaining their movies into long-form storytelling on a scale unprecedented in cinema, if not unprecedented in comics. They took their lessons from the comics and it paid off, and at this point I basically look forwards to anything they announce. I can’t say that about the films put out by Fox. I enjoyed Logan, for example, but for me all signs right now are pointing to them flubbing a second attempt at the Dark Phoenix saga. It’s just too rushed to have the proper weight. And that’s a shame, but I feel X-citement as I write this blog on Tuesday night, because in less than half an hour it will be 9:02 PM PST, otherwise known as the moment the Disney/Fox merger finally clinches and the X-Men officially “come home” to Marvel Studios. Dark Phoenix will most likely still be released, and Feige tends to have things planned out years in advance enough that I wouldn’t expect any X-movies in the immediate future, but hey, just the thought of a decent Fantastic Four at long last has my antennae perked. Or at least a proper introduction to Doctor Doom, which I feel needs the kind of patience and build-up that Marvel Studios has proven very, very good at. And hell, audiences were just fine with the MCU version of Spider-Man swinging his way onto their screens only a handful of years after Sony made their last solo attempt. Maybe sometime in the next decade, an MCU Jean Grey will be introduced, and built upon, and finally the epic saga of my youth will play out to my satisfaction.